Field Assistants 2025

We are looking for hardworking, positive, and committed individuals for the 2025 farm season!

We love growing beautiful flowers, organic veg, and healthy work relationships! While farming can be dirty and labor intensive, it is also incredibly rewarding to be outside everyday, feeding and flowering the community. We are looking for self-aware individuals who are interested in small farming in Alaska, and in learning and growing with us.

Overview of Responsibilities:

• Greenhouse work: seeding, up-potting, and planting

• Field prep: laying landscape fabric, spreading compost and amendments, laying irrigation lines, installing t-posts, and support netting

• Transplanting, weeding, and cultivating

• Harvesting, washing, and packing veggies

• Flower harvest and arranging

• Wednesday Farmer’s Market, and occasional fill-in for special events

Qualifications:

• Farming experience is strongly preferred and/or experience with manual labor

• We have two field sites, Herried Road and Cripple Creek Road. You must have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and willingness to travel to both locations

• Able to work 8+ hrs on your feet in all weather conditions

• Physically fit and able to perform demanding and repetitive farm tasks (bending, squatting, lifting, kneeling, standing on a daily basis). You must be able to lift items up to 50 lbs.

• Positive, punctual and good communication

Full Time (Monday- Friday, 9-5) or Part-Time (3-4 days per week). Position starts mid-April - end of September.

Compensation: $15-18, commensurate with experience, plus weekly veg

Please send a resume to frontieressfarm@gmail.com and tell us if you would prefer full time or part time, plus a little about yourself!